📚 noun • entry_id 58197
siriometer
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siriómetro
A unit of distance equal to one million astronomical units or 15.813 light-years.
He had used the star Sirius as his standard, so he decided to call the distance to Sirius, whatever it might turn out to be in miles or kilmetres, one 'siriometer'. Herschel calcul…
The siriometer dates its pedigree from the founder of stellar astronomy, William Herschel. As is well known, the distance unit used by Herschel is the mean distance of the first ma…
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